I've made a few wingbone calls and I can't figure out how to make them pearly white. This is what I usually do and maybe someone can give me additional advice. After cleaning them out I will boil them in some water, hydrogen peroxide, and a little bit of dish washing soap. The bones I have done before have been from hens and look pretty good for my standards and proably have a great finish if i polished them. Right now I'm using a 3 yr old gobbler bones and cant them white at all.This time after I boiled them I soaked them in peroxide overnight and still that didn't help. A friend of mine's daughter killed this gobbler and Im wanting the bones to look really nice. If anyone has some helpfull ideas thanks. Also, I thought about bleech but I read somewhere that it would weaken the bones and haven't tried it. Thanks for any advice.
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Simmer in dish soap till clean. Change water when necessary.
Then use ammonia and soak for days even weeks for stubborn bones. You can use the fuel, and I have used acetone for super tough stains. I let them soak for a week or more, never had a problem with the bone integrity.
Then I rinse and let dry.
Then into 40volume peroxide for 6-12hrs. Then let dry in sun.
None of this is set in stone. A lot depends on my schedule and if I remember where I put them :TooFunny:
thanks for the info guys :thanks:
Well, I got them pearly white by boiling them at 200 degrees for a little longer than an hour with a little dish washing soap. Any time there wasn't any bubbles from the soap I would add a little more. When I got done with that step I put them in quart jar filled with hydrogen peroxide and left it out in the sun for 4 days, all 4 days were very sunny and warm. Now all I got to do is put them together, polish them and figure out what is the best way to get a good finish on them.
Thanks again